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How to help Californians whose tap water is tainted
Karen Lewis knows about water problems. The 67-year-old lives in Compton, where the water coming out of her tap is tinged brown by manganese, a metal similar to iron, from old pipes. The water is supplied by the troubled Sativa Los Angeles County Water District. The district has been plagued by … → Read More
Ana B. Ibarra | Kaiser Health News
Web Reporter for California Healthline, is based in Sacramento. Before joining the KHN team in February 2016, she spent two years covering health in California’s Central Valley for the Merced Sun-Star. She is a 2015 Center for Health Journalism fellow and a Cal Poly Pomona graduate. → Read More
Ana B. Ibarra | Kaiser Health News
Web Reporter for California Healthline, is based in Sacramento. Before joining the KHN team in February 2016, she spent two years covering health in California’s Central Valley for the Merced Sun-Star. She is a 2015 Center for Health Journalism fellow and a Cal Poly Pomona graduate. → Read More
Old Motels Get New Life Helping Homeless Heal
Using run-down motels to care for and temporarily house homeless people recently discharged from the hospital helps stabilize them inexpensively, preventing unnecessary and costly returns to ERs and hospitals. → Read More
Saving Lives And Saving Money
A pioneering program in southern California provides ongoing care and housing to homeless people who are “super-utilizers” of hospital emergency rooms. The effort is reducing ER visits and saving a lot of money. → Read More
California Insurance Marketplace Imposes New Quality, Cost Conditions On Plans
In a sweeping overhaul of its contracts, the state’s insurance exchange will require health plans to hold doctors and hospitals accountable for quality and cost. → Read More
Battle Heating Up Over ‘Surprise’ Medical Bills
Legislators hope to stop “surprise” medical bills that have many patients livid and are pitting health plans and consumer advocates against the state’s leading physician group. → Read More
State Rebuffed, Won’t Move Fragile Kids to Managed Care — For Now
Medically fragile children in a special state program will get a reprieve from a proposal to switch them into managed care plans. → Read More
Housing Project Takes On Seniors’ Health
An innovative new approach in Oakland combines low-income housing and a health program for seniors. → Read More
State Finalizing Plans To Close Centers For The Severely Disabled
A two-year fight over the near-total closure of the last three large state centers for the severely disabled is winding down, and some families fear wrenching transitions in care for their loved ones. → Read More
Rise Of Latino Political Power In Capitol Could Give New Momentum To Health Care
On Monday, for the first time in California history, Latinos will hold the two most powerful positions in the legislature. And that could mean a renewed political focus on health care, particularly for adult immigrants without papers. → Read More
State Legislature Passes New MCO Tax, Rescues Over $1 Billion for Medi-Cal
In a two-thirds floor vote, the Assembly and Senate Monday passed a complex proposal to impose a restructured tax on managed care organizations -- bringing in nearly $1.4 billion for Medi-Cal -- and tax breaks to insurers. → Read More
Bill Would Require Insurers To Help Consumers With Complaints
Most consumers in California don’t know they can complain to the state about their health plan. Soon, insurers might be required to tell them how. → Read More
Fight Looms Over Medi-Cal For Adult Immigrants Without Papers
With undocumented immigrant children able to get full Medi-Cal benefits starting in May, the state legislature will turn its attention to the more controversial idea of offering the same coverage to their adult counterparts. → Read More
Poverty and Violence Linked to Childhood Trauma, Poor Health
A new study says poor and violence-prone neighborhoods are a significant contributor to childhood trauma and a threat to the mental and physical well being of their residents. → Read More
State’s Largest Health Insurance Lobby Approves Tax Plan
The endorsement of the California Association of Health Plans is key to a deal that would allow the state to avoid major budget cuts by taxing managed care plans. → Read More
Deal On New Managed Care Tax Imminent
Several insurers have endorsed a proposal for a new $1.1 billion tax on managed care organizations, which would end months of negotiations. → Read More
Insurance Regulation Shifting Toward Managed Care Agency
The authority of the Department of Managed Health Care in California’s dual-agency system has grown in recent years. The agency now regulates 88 percent of the commercial market. → Read More
Housing Project Takes on Seniors' Health
An innovative new approach in Oakland combines low-income housing and a health program for seniors. → Read More
New Push To Sign Up Undocumented Kids For Medi-Cal
Enrollment of undocumented children in full Medi-Cal coverage is expected to begin May 15 and be retroactive to May 1. But parents are being urged to start the process now. → Read More